'News Speak' about the Lebanon War
| Autor: | Paul Jalbert |
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| Rok vydání: | 1984 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Palestine Studies. 14:16-35 |
| ISSN: | 1533-8614 0377-919X |
| DOI: | 10.1525/jps.1984.14.1.00p00942 |
| Popis: | lntroduction* The debate over the objectivity of the US news media coverage of the Lebanon War rages on. Several articles have appeared in the mainstream media since the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982 and before, arguing, in one form or another, that the American media were "proPLO" or t"anti-Israel." Typical among these were articles by Leon Wieseltier (New Republic, September 23, 1982), who claimed that t"There is a scandal, and it is the moral and political prestige of the PLO [in media] coverage of the Middle East;" and by Robert W. Tucker (Commentary, October 1982) who claimed that unnamed ttWestern governments . . . encouraged the PLO in its maximalist course" of ttwinner-take-all," that is, the destruction of Israel. Two other articles which were widely circulated and quoted were Martin Peretz's "Lebanon Eyewitness" (New Republic, August 2, 1982), and Norman Podhoretz's "J'Accuse" (Commentary, December 1982). Both were strident attacks on the US media for being "pro-PLO" and ttanti-Israel." (See Chomsky's counter |
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